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Located in Wembley, Middlesex, today a district in the north of Greater London. The Wembley Hall Cinema opened in 1914 and had a seating capacity of 560. It operated as an independent cinema and in 1935 the owners closed it down for a major rebuild. It re-opened in December 1935 with an increased seating capacity of 1,050.

It was taken over by the Rank Organisation and modernised again, re-opening on 23rd May 1955 as the Gaumont. On 17th December 1961 it was re-named Odeon (the former Majestic/Odeon Wembley had closed in May 1961).

The Odeon closed on 18th January 1975 with Roger Moore in “Gold”. The building stood unused for a while until it was re-opened as the Liberty Cinema in 1976 screening Asian Bollywood films on several nights a week. The Liberty Cinema finally closed in 1981 and the building was demolished for an office block named Valiant House to be built on the site.

This was a friendly cinema to work at. I enjoyed doing relief here. The projection room was on ground level and straight on to the High Street. One day I had a “Look at Life” running and the top spool box open. The reel fell off and rolled out into the road where a bus demolished it. The rest is history.